Sites of Resistance: Writing as Protest in Black Anti-Apartheid South Africa

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dc.contributorLemly, Johnen_US
dc.contributorOmojola, Olabodeen_US
dc.contributor.advisorWeber, Donalden_US
dc.contributor.authorLockwood, Elizabethen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-16T13:47:26Z
dc.date.available2011-02-16T13:47:26Z
dc.date.gradyear2008en_US
dc.date.issued2011-02-16
dc.date.submitted2008-05-21 13:25:58en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the genre of protest literature that arose out of South Africa s black anti-apartheid movement during the 1980s. By examining three novels, Mongane Wally Serote s To Every Birth It s Blood (1981), Miriam Tlali s Amandla (1980), and Njabulo Ndebele s Fools and Other Stories (1983), as well as Oliver Schmitz and Thomas Mogotlane s film, Mapantsula (1988), I address the following questions: What was the function of protest literature in a society where the government controlled every aspect of daily life? How did protest literature encourage protesters while simultaneously smuggling itself through censor boards? Was protest literature merely agitprop, written as propaganda? Or was each individual work published because of its intrinsic literary value? How did the politics of the anti-apartheid movement hinder the production of nonpolitical fiction?en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipEnglishen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10166/758
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rights.restrictedpublic
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectapartheiden_US
dc.subjectprotesten_US
dc.subjectSowetoen_US
dc.subjectTlalien_US
dc.subjectNdebeleen_US
dc.subjectMapantsulaen_US
dc.subjectSeroteen_US
dc.subjectstruggleen_US
dc.subjectantiapartheiden_US
dc.titleSites of Resistance: Writing as Protest in Black Anti-Apartheid South Africaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
mhc.degreeUndergraduateen_US
mhc.institutionMount Holyoke Collegeen_US

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